Poor Job, 1751. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1751.
Subtitle: ... Fitted to the meridian of Rhode-Island; but will serve (without any sensible error) in all the adjacent places, even from Newfoundland to South- Carolina.
By: By Job Shepherd, philom. ; [Four lines of verse]
Contributors: Shepherd, Job.; Franklin, James, 1732?-1762.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 6606.
Publisher: Printed and sold by James Franklin, at the printing-office under the town-school-house.
Published: 1750
Place of publication: Newport [R.I.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 24
Notes: The preface shows that the pseudonym is that of the calculator, who is identified as the printer James Franklin by H.M. Chapin (American collector 2 (1926): 325-329; "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. v. 25 (1915): 22). But Franklin is not known to have been educated in mathematics and astronomy.

Advertised in the Boston evening post, Oct. 29, 1750.

Signatures: [A-C]þ́.

The Anatomy is the only illustration.

Evans 6606.

Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 94.

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 12800.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 6606)